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divide

Nouns

• (n) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
• (n) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems water parting, watershed,

Verbs

• (v) separate into parts or portions
  • divide the cake into three equal parts
  • The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
  carve up, dissever, split, split up, separate,
• (v) perform a division
  • Can you divide 49 by seven?
  fraction,
• (v) act as a barrier between; stand between
  • The mountain range divides the two countries
  separate,
• (v) come apart
  • The two pieces that we had glued separated
  part, separate,
• (v) make a division or separation separate,
• (v) force, take, or pull apart
  • He separated the fighting children
  • Moses parted the Red Sea
  disunite, separate, part,

Synonyms

carve up dissever split split up separate fraction water parting watershed part disunite

Antonyms

unite unify multiply

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